Jewish History - Exile and Creation of the Torah (5a of 20 sessions)

The Babylonian exile in the 6th century BCE inspired crucial transformations in Jewish belief and identity. And it was likely in exile that the first major Jewish work we have today, the Torah, was compiled. How did these changes move toward the Judaism we know today? Rabbi Adam Chalom, Dean for North America of the International Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism, continues his exploration of the IISHJ Adult Learning curriculum An Introduction to Jewish History.
Viewers might also enjoy this past IISHJ program with Professor William Propp on "The Origins of the Bible": • "Origins of the Bible"... .
See the other videos in this series at • Introduction to Jewish... .
The recommended reading in Rabbi Sherwin Wine's A Provocative People: A Secular History of the Jews for this session is pp113-126. Available in print and e-book - more information at iishj.org/publ....

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[@janellechristensen6848]

Dr. Amanda Podany cites earlier "the gods allowed our defeat because they were displeased" narrative from Sumerian and Akkadian writings. It is not necessarily unique to Judean (but I will have to go back to find specific examples). I think it shows up in the Neo-Sumerian period.

[@IISHJvid]

Thank you - interesting to know. It certainly would not be the first time that Judean culture, mythology and religion borrowed from Mesopotamia!

[@kenmcclellan]

Ezra (at 8:03) seems to place the Name in the mouth of Cyrus. And yet the famous Cylinder says Nabonidus was thrown down for blasphemy against Marduk and Cyrus was raised by Marduk. Begging the question, What is the relationship between the concept of Yahweh and Marduk the son of Enki? And what is the relation to the one "broken in pieces" according to Jeremiah 50:2?

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Have you done, or are you planning on doing, a video covering the triad of the Ten Commandments? I thought it was curious that of the three passages which depict the story (Deut 5, Exodus 20, Exodus 34) the first two accounts are nearly identical only differing in the reason given for observing the Sabbath if I recall. But the Ex 34 passage gives a wildly different list of commandments that no one that I know of would recognize as being the "Ten Commandments", despite it being the only passage of the three that actually refers to them using that phrase within the text itself. I don't read Hebrew, so I am forced to rely on English translations of the text. Is there some context in the original language that I am missing? Or is this possibly just that the Ex 34 passage is so focused on Jewish festivals and dietary requirements that the Christians sort of overlooked it and emphasized the Ex 20 passage with its more generalized moral/ethical rules so it became the one that many people were familiar with?

[@IISHJvid]

This adult education curriculum, "An Introduction to Secular Humanistic Judaism," does explore the 10 Commandments in more detail in its Biblical Literature section of the Jewish Culture part of the program - this year is Introduction to Jewish History. It remains to be seen if we will still be doing video programming in 2021-2022!

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Amazing talks on Jewish history. Is it possible to arrange the series plays in order one after the other?

[@IISHJvid]

If you go to this playlist and start with the one you are watching, it should play the next in the series. Thanks for watching! kzbin.info/aero/PLyHcweASuE6_PI19EOGi0wqoAF8dbfV1C

[@rursus8354]

I like this. But what happened to the priests of the other gods at the Deuteronomic purge? And what happened to those farmers that were allowed to remain in Juda while the upper class was deported to Babylon? And I doubt the story about the Assyrian total deportation of the entire Israelite people -- the Tanakh is ambiguous about that, and there were (are) the Samarians ...

[@IISHJvid]

There are extra-Biblical records attesting to Assyrian deportation policies. You are correct that the peasantry stayed - they may well be the "intermarried" people that Babylonian returnees complain about in Ezra-Nehemiah, or the ancestors of the Samaritans. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resettlement_policy_of_the_Neo-Assyrian_Empire#:~:text=After%20the%20fall%20of%20Samaria,(modern%2Dday%20Iran).

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[@bell1095]

The Zohar as in general Kabbala holds Diviniy as an unified heterosexual couple, which female part, Ashera, had its place within the ohel as in each of the two temples. Todays (modern) Feminism ignores those sources of tradition.

[@stormy8110]

Lemme tell ya-- some Christians also do not like admitting that the Torah didn't come straight from the mouth of God lol